Mental Health of Special School Teachers | The International Journal of Indian Psychȯlogy

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Comparative Study

| Published: March 25, 2016

Mental Health of Special School Teachers

Poonam ,

Research scholar, Department of Education, VMLG College, Ghaziabad Google Scholar More about the auther

Dr. Shashi Malik

Assistant Professor, Department of Education, VMLG College, Ghaziabad Google Scholar More about the auther

DIP: 18.01.015/20160302

DOI: 10.25215/0302.015

ABSTRACT

The present study was carried out with the main aim of studying and comparing of mental health of special school teachers. The data was collected by using Mental Health Inventory (MHI) constructed and standardized by Jagdish and Srivastava (1984) with the help of purposive random cluster sampling from South Delhi. Mean, S.D., and t-values were calculated for different dimensions and over all mental health between male and female special school teachers. The findings of the research revealed that overall average mental health of special education teachers is poor. Male special school teachers were found to have better mental health than female special school teachers in terms of Positive self evaluation, Autonomy, Group oriented attitude and Environment competence. While with regards to the dimension: Perception of reality and Integration of personality Female special school teacher were found to have better health than male special school teachers.

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Mental Health and Special School Teachers

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How to cite this article:

Poonam, S Malik. (2016). Mental Health of Special School Teachers. International Journal of Indian Psychology 3 (2), DOI: 10.25215/0302.015, DIP: 18.01.015/20160302